Tag: Traumatic Brain Injury
Study Explores Employment, Economic Consequences of mTBI
Significant association seen between work status at 12 months after injury and postconcussion symptoms experienced after injury
Pre-TBI Headache Affects Diagnosis of Posttraumatic Headache
Patients with headaches prior to TBI less likely to receive diagnosis of PTH, despite 25.7 percent reporting new, worsening headache
Few Brains From Deceased Military Personnel Have Evidence of CTE
All brains with chronic traumatic encephalopathy were from decedents who had participated in contact sports
Link Between Major Traumatic Brain Injury, Dementia Examined
Risk factors most strongly attenuating the association between major TBI and dementia were alcohol consumption, physical activity
Traumatic Brain Injury May Up Risk for Developing Comorbidities
Risk for chronic cardiovascular, endocrine, neurologic conditions increased with any degree of severity of traumatic brain injury
Posttraumatic Epilepsy More Likely to Be Drug Resistant
Lowest quality of life reported for those with posttraumatic epilepsy, drug-resistant epilepsy
Odds of Poor Long-Term Outcome High With Combat Concussion
Service members sustaining combat concussion were 37 to 49 times more likely to be in the worse disability trajectory
Early Posttraumatic Seizures Tied to Worse Traumatic Brain Injury Outcomes
Development of early posttraumatic seizures predicted via clinical risk factors
Poor One-Year Cognitive Outcome Common After Mild TBI
Multivariable prediction model for poor one-year cognitive outcome includes education, health insurance, preinjury depression
Updated Brain Injury Guidelines Validated for Complicated mTBI
Use of uBIG could potentially decrease number of transfers for Canadian patients with complicated mild traumatic brain injury
